By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
December 12, 2002, 11:40 AM PT

IBM assured customers Thursday that the company will continue to sell and support OS/2, clarifying an online notice that drew speculation that the vintage operating system was being phased out.

The Notice of Software Withdrawal, published on Tuesday, lists nearly 300 OS/2 products that won't be available directly through IBM starting in March 2003.

That doesn't mean that the company won't continue to sell the 15-year-old operating-system software, IBM spokesman Steve Eisenstadt said. "As long as our customers want OS/2, we will support them," he said. "We don't have plans to withdraw OS/2."...

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